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Definition of incendiary in US English:

incendiary

adjective

‘Equally important was the ‘air defence oath’ which urged citizens to stand their ground in the face of incendiary or high explosive bombs.’

‘In 1943, the Neumann factory in central Berlin was struck by incendiary bombs.’

‘Krakow and several other cities were attacked at the same time with incendiary bombs.’

‘The incendiary devices were found by construction workers who notified the Auburn Police Department.’

‘On June 10, 1991, the University's mink farm was set on fire after a timed incendiary device was detonated.’

‘In the High Street two huge concrete water tanks were erected to provide emergency supplies to fight fires if any incendiary devices were dropped.’

‘A plastic jug rigged as an incendiary device is later found on the roof.’

‘In the Underground they were safe from the high explosive and incendiary bombs that rained down on London night after night.’

‘One of the incendiary devices had a blue colored latex glove as a wick.’

‘These grenades were both fragmentary and incendiary devices designed to cause either death or serious battlefield injuries.’

‘He showed youngsters an incendiary bomb found on a golf course in Eltham.’

‘In fact, there may be as many as 12 incendiary devices in your fridge.’

‘They were arrested after police discovered incendiary devices in their car.’

‘The fire had been started with a makeshift incendiary device but caused only limited damage.’

‘According to sources, dissident groups are now at work planning to plant bombs or detonate incendiary devices, according to leaked information.’

‘The plane dropped a total of 608,000 tons of high explosive bombs and more than 51 million incendiary bombs.’

‘In the latter part of 1993 and in the first months of 1994 its violence was directed almost exclusively against the security forces, and incendiary devices replaced car bombs in attacks on economic targets.’

‘This was mixed in various proportions to produce fuel for American and British flame-throwers and to fill some incendiary bombs.’

‘Avante-noise sextet The Birds of Paradise are another act whose incendiary live show precedes them.’

‘In fact, one comes close to burning down the premises with his incendiary performance.’

‘Instead these are the tunes which best capture a group who blended vaudeville, punk and Marvel comics, including the live version of the title track - as close as you can get to their incendiary stage performance.’

‘Galvanising the band's performance in to an incendiary party each time, it is she who makes them the hottest ticket on the live circuit at the moment.’

‘For 13 years, they have continually proven to be one of the most exciting and innovative bands in rock roll, with an uncompromising torrent of groundbreaking records and incendiary live shows.’

‘In his painstaking The Reichstag Fire: Legend and Truth, Fritz Tobias concluded that the fire was the work of a lone incendiary, Marinus van der Lubbe.’

‘Reports arrived to say incendiaries had set fire to the top of the telephone exchange and once again stirrup pumps and buckets of water were rushed upstairs where the ceiling above the equipment was burning steadily.’

‘The torch and the man's wild hair and dynamic pose imply a revolutionary or an incendiary, rather than someone who extinguishes fires.’

‘This was something the Anglo-Saxons seem to have understood, as their legislation focused on malicious destruction of single trees by incendiaries, not willful setting of forest fires.’

‘All about there menace the plots of the revolutionary, the stones of the mob, the dagger of the assassin, the torch of the incendiary.’